I don't get the ScarJo "slims way down" thing. She looks about the same to me, except that her hair is a different color. Unless she's managed to find a diet that changes hair color, color me unimpressed.

I'm responding to the last two posts of yesterday's thread. Californian11, signing the back of your license is always a good thing to do, but it can be overruled by your next of kin. Make sure you tell them of your wishes, too. They're the ones who have to fill out the paperwork, which is extensive.

Bawlmer, glad to hear of your successful transplant. As someone who authorized a donation for my mom, all I can say is live your life to the fullest. That is all the thanks that is needed.

I'm pleased but not at all surprised to know that Natasha Richardson's family made the decision to donate her organs. They've been the picture of grace and generosity (cooperating with photographers at the funeral!) while enduring pain most of us don't want to imagine. It's no surprise that their generosity would extend to organ donation.

I can see the difference between Scarlett's before and after pics: her boobs pulled a Houdini. She went from a D cup to a no-cup. They are gone! *GONE*!!! Ladies! Please stop these crazy diets! We can end the senseless boob slaughter in our lifetime but only if we work together.

- not to be singular minded, as the richardson tragedy has been in my mind for days, but the redgrave/neeson family have been marvelous. thanks to them, through organ donation, others will live. what a gift.
- dolly parton not gay. does anyone really care? why does she feel the need to address the rumors. just ignore them. esp. at this stage of her career.
- simon cowell, you big bag of wind.
- cloris leachman's snogging. why is it that people feel that have to divulge all personal info????? now, sophia loren, maybe. but what publisher/editor would say to cloris "we must have all details about your sex life"? that wouldn't be the topic foremost in my mind regarding ms. leachman. but hat tip to jezebel 3 about her husband. there's the book.
- rihanna w/a gun tattoo. no comment.

btw, did anyone see the new apres plastic surgery photo of daryl hannah? holy bedsheets. terrifying. don't these people have enough $$$ to go to top docs so something like this doesn't happen?
- oh, and while it's not celebritology, some guy in michigan got sentenced for having sex with a car wash vacuum. gives new meaning to the song "car wash". get your car washed, yeah.

Oh great. Now I have "Here You Come Again" running through my head. Just when I was about to get myself together. Thanks a heap, Dolly.

Let's hope Jeremy Piven's suit doesn't start until August, when the mercury usually rises much higher.

Just promise me, Cloris, that you didn't lurk outside a Dairy Queen in your convertible (a la Yvonne DeCarlo) preying on Tony Curtis and Robert Wagner.

Even if you didn't, the idea of Lou Grant and Phyllis in flagrante delicto (never mind the separate, actual assignation with Popeye Doyle) is enough to make me go without food for quite some time. My waistline thanks you.

As an advocate of organ donation, I think that it was wonderful of the Richardson/Redgrave family to think of others in their time of deep sorrow.

To the "family friend" who leaked it to the press? I would like to slap you upside the head until you bleed. You do NOT expose organ donor families. Anyone who got an organ can do the math based upon her general time of death (which, thanks to the press, we pretty much know) and her location. Even in the NYC area, there aren't that many organ donations on a given day. I seriously doubt Liam Neeson and his sons will want to be harangued by someone who may or may not have gotten one of Natasha Richardson's organs.

Shame on the friend for reporting what the family obviously wanted to keep private, and shame on the press for not having a little more tact than to keep it private.

Oh, Miss Dolly! Honestly, she's so fabulous I could care less who she sleeps with. She can pull off just about anything. (And just might.)

I found the second half of the Simon Cowell article much funnier than the Obama stuff. To wit:"Cowell later told Leno that, when home in England, he is treated like the sad man-child he is. Accordingly, after meeting Queen Elizabeth II once, her majesty proceeded to ignore Cowell before her husband, Prince Philip, called him a "sponger," one who makes their living using others."
/dead from laughter

Ed Asner is still very much alive and kicking and being a bane to conservatives everywhere. He's recently divorced...so... maybe he's still available.

Organ donations are anonymous unless the family gives permission to release their name to the receipient. So unless that permission was given, the receipient family will never know.

Organs are matched, not bequeathed. It's a very sophisticated matching system, as any receipient on the list could tell you. You can't be angry because you didn't get an organ that was released if it didn't match your type.

Have there been rumors about Dolly? Only rumor I have heard is that they have an "open" marriage. Either way (on the marriage and the gay thing), who cares?

If you look closely at the arms, neck and face of the ScarJo pic, you can definitely see she has lost weight. I'm sure it's for her role in Iron Man 2, as is the dark hair. She's playing a Russian spy who is a former ballerina. I like her curvier "before" figure, but the new look fits her character better.

ScarJo looks like Debi Mazar in that photo. And her new look "elegant"? I beg to differ. Now she looks like any other starved Hollywood actress and has lost what made her so sexy and unique. How very disappointing.

The real knuckleheads will be anyone who pays $8.00 a pop to see the Three Stooges movie in a theater.

Babwa Wawa, the rest of us have long since been ready for you to retire. Perhaps you should revise your memoirs to include more of your assignations with the rich and famous. Especially if Dolly Parton is on the list.

Perhaps Elizabeth Arden's farewell use of Liz Taylor could be a picture of two women looking at a beatifully made-up Liz Taylor lying in a casket.

WOMAN1: The funeral home did a wonderful job! Doesn't she look lifelike?

WOMAN2: They must use Elizabeth Arden cosmetics!

I wonder when Elizabeth Arden will send me my commission for this idea.

td, you've put a wonderful image in my head of a crew member assigned specifically to follow wee Tom around and stick an apple box under him for every scene to boost his height by three inches. ;-)

Yep, that sounds like the most generic horrible rom com idea I've ever heard, which is especially painful due to the fact I have an original and nifty rom com in submission right now that's getting lots of love but no offers yet. grrrrrrr

Bawlmer, I'm so glad for your good fortune, and for the generosity of your organ donor and his/her family. You bring us Lizards the gift of laughter almost daily (though an occasional tear to the eye, thanks to the heads-up today re your post late last night).

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td, you've put a wonderful image in my head of a crew member assigned specifically to follow wee Tom around and stick an apple box under him for every scene to boost his height by three inches. ;-)

I've heard that such a thing was done for wee Alan Ladd in his movies.

Hell, she should get a lifetime achievement award by now. I think ScarJo should also be recognized for her contributions to the cause- both of them- although that might be the most awkward awards ceremony ever.